Charley Scalies, Actor known by television series The Wire y The soprano, He has died at age 84 because of Alzheimer’s disease.
Charley Scalies was an actor born in Philadelphia who played the docker and trade unionist Thomas ‘Horseface’ Pakusa in the second season of The Wire And to the American football coach in one of Tony Soprano’s dreams, the character of James Gandolfini in The soprano.
Scalies died Thursday at a nursing center in Phoenixville, in Pennsylvania, after a long fight against Alzheimer’s evil, his daughter Anne Marie Scalies reported The Hollywood Reporter.
The actor appeared in the 12 episodes of The Wire During the second season of the HBO series, where he played Horsefface, an imprisoned Baltimore port and devote of his corrupt boss, Frank Sobotka, played by Chris Bauer.
“Like all the other characters that I have had the luck of interpreting, Horseface lives within me,” he said in a 2019 interview, Thr recalls.
Scalies returned to HBO the following year in the fifth season of The soprano, For the episode The Test Dream, where he played coach Molinaro. His character, hard, appears in one of Tony’s dreams, reprimanding him for taking “the easy exit” when becoming a criminal and waste your potential.
Charles Joseph Scalies Jr. was born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1940 and grew up in the south of the city, in a house above the poleball hall of his father, where as a child he entertained customers with jokes and imitations of Al Jolson.
The scalies curriculum includes films Liberty Heights (1999), directed by the producer of Homicide, Barry Levinson, y Jersey Girl (a Jersey girl) (2004), of Kevin Smith, In addition to appearances as a guest actor in Law and Order, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit y Open case.
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